JAKARTA: The Jakarta Corruption Court has imposed a prison sentence of six years and six months on Harvey Moeis, a coal businessman and husband of actress Sandra Dewi, after the judicial panel found him guilty of corruption and money laundering in a major case involving state-owned miner PT Timah.
“Defendant Harvey Moeis has been found guilty of committing corruption and money laundering (along with the other defendants),” chairman Eko Ariyanto said on Monday when reading out the verdict, as quoted by kompas.id.
“The court also sentenced Harvey to pay a fine of Rp 1 billion (US$61,731) or serve an additional six months in prison. He must also pay restitution of Rp 210 billion or his assets could be confiscated. If the seized assets fall If he does not reach the required amount, he will have to serve an additional two years in prison.
With the exception of the Rp 210 billion in restitution, the sentence is lighter than the prosecutor’s demand of 12 years in prison and a fine of Rp 1 billion or another year in prison.
In their consideration, the judges said that the prosecutor’s sentence was too harsh given the crimes for which Harvey was convicted in his role as a representative of PT Refined Bangka Timah (RBT), and not as a commissioner, director or shareholder.
It has been proven that Harvey was the link between RBT and PT Timah in the corruption case as RBT operated under the mining license (IUP) of the state-owned tin giant and sold its products to PT Timah.
During Monday’s hearing, the court also handed down sentences to co-defendants Suparta and Reza Andriansyah, RBT’s chief executive and business development director respectively.
Suparta was sentenced to eight years, a fine of Rp 1 billion or six additional months in prison and Rp 4.57 trillion in restitution or six additional years of imprisonment, while Reza was sentenced to five years and a fine of Rp 750 million, or another had to serve three months. in prison.
The sentences imposed on Suparta and Reza are both lighter than the prosecutor’s respective demands of fourteen and eight years.
PT Timah, which has the country’s largest tin mining concessions, is embroiled in a massive corruption case in which former executives have been accused of facilitating illegal mining activities in its operating areas between 2015 and 2022.
The scandal involves 22 suspects, including state officials and prominent businessmen, at least six of whom have been convicted.
The corruption court has estimated that the case has caused losses to the state totaling Rp 300 trillion, of which Rp 2.28 trillion came from the irregular rental of tin processing equipment, Rp 26.65 trillion in payments to illegal miners and Rp 271.07 trillion in environmental damage. – The Jakarta Post/ANN